Accidental Ethnography
eBook - ePub

Accidental Ethnography

An Inquiry into Family Secrecy

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Accidental Ethnography

An Inquiry into Family Secrecy

About this book

Each family has its secrets, ones that shape family communication and relationships in a way generally unknown to the outsider and often the family itself. Autoethnographers, students of these relationships, confront many silences in their attempts to understand these social worlds.

Now issued as a Routledge Education Classic Edition, Accidental Ethnography delves into this shadowy world of pain and loss in the hopes of finding productive, ethical avenues for transforming the secret lives of families into powerful narratives of hope. It merges autoethnographic method with the therapeutic power of storytelling to heal family wounds.

A new preface text by the author reflects on the changes in the field of qualitative research and on his own research journey since the publication of the original edition.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface to the Classic Edition
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Overview of the Book
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. 1 Family Secrets
  13. 2 Accidental Ethnography
  14. 3 Dreaming Autoethnography
  15. 4 Out of the Shadows
  16. 5 Evoking Archetypal Themes in an Ethnographic Life
  17. 6 The Storied Life and the Courage to Connect
  18. Epilogue
  19. References
  20. Index